Raise fastlane -showBuildSettings timeout in CI workflows#780
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The weekly TestFlight build failed when xcodebuild -showBuildSettings timed out after fastlane's default ~45s retry budget (base 3s, 4 retries). This happened because the Alamofire and swift-collections bumps changed Package.resolved, invalidating the SPM cache key, so the build ran with a cold package graph and -showBuildSettings blocked on package resolution past the timeout. Set FASTLANE_XCODEBUILD_SETTINGS_TIMEOUT/RETRIES on both the TestFlight build and the test run so cold-cache package resolution (which happens on every dependency-bump PR) has room to complete instead of failing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
The weekly TestFlight build failed with:
```
xcodebuild -showBuildSettings timed out after 4 retries with a base timeout of 3.
```
This is not a code issue. Fastlane runs `xcodebuild -showBuildSettings` to read build settings, retrying with escalating timeouts (3 → 6 → 12 → 24s, ~45s total). All four attempts timed out.
Root cause: the recent Alamofire (#774) and swift-collections (#775) bumps changed `Package.resolved`, which invalidated the SPM cache key (`hashFiles('**/Package.resolved')`). The build then ran with a cold package graph — the log shows the `swift-syntax` macro prebuilt being downloaded mid-step — so `-showBuildSettings` blocked on package resolution longer than fastlane's default retry budget.
Fix
Set `FASTLANE_XCODEBUILD_SETTINGS_TIMEOUT` / `FASTLANE_XCODEBUILD_SETTINGS_RETRIES` (global fastlane env vars, honored by both `gym`/`build_app` and `scan`/`run_tests`) so cold-cache package resolution has room to complete.
Applied to both workflows:
No behavioral change when the cache is warm — the timeout only matters when `-showBuildSettings` is slow.
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